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i have a very large terra cotta pot with two sanseverias......under a sky-light in a very sheltered, light-wise, covered entry-(30x16). It has 13 spears from 12" to 38" which are firm and very stable. I live in Phoenix
and it can be VERY cold sometimes and HOT five months of the year.
My watering plan is this: 2X a month (the 1st and the 15th) in hot weather
and once a month, on the 1st, in cold. THEY WILL ROT if you water them "regularly" and as they are expensive, be on the careful side!
They do not like the kind of sun we have so they really like diffused light.

Great rock garden plant in Los Angeles. Placed it at the bottom of a slope with gravel channels that gave it a little water (the gravel diverted overflow from a lawn at the top of the slope; this was at the very bottom and got the least water). Tripled in size and started flowering in just a few months.

Does have sharp points on the ends; great specimen when planted out-of-the-way!

I inadvertently placed this plant in an out-of-the-way spot and forgot to water all winter of 2008/09. The pot tipped and the root ball fell out of the pot and was exposed to the air all winter. The leaves became a bit shriveled but have responded well to repotting and watering this spring. Like its cousins, it seems very drought tolerant and forgiving of neglect. (TannedDAM@aol.com)

it has added 2 spikes from when i bought it last year, slow, but the spikes are over 4 feet tall!!! it is so amazing and has been growing in med. light. i love the foliage, i wonder if it gets a sizable trunk?

I've had mine about a year and a half now, and it is currently blooming spectacularly with two very long flower spikes (see pics at the link above). So, at least in central Florida, it appears to be a winter bloomer.

I've had it sitting in a garden (potted) on the side of my house all this time (where it receives torrential downpours in our tropical summer rainy season) and the tons of rain never bothered it at all. Our typical winter lows dipping occasionally into the 30's have never bothered it, either.

I've brought it onto my covered back patio for the time being so that I could observe the flowering cycle and am just amazed by the incredible fragrance of the flowers!

I bought this plant from Wal-mart, of all places, for less than $2 and it has four spikes about1' (12 inches) long each. Really neat plant. Was online researching a lot of plants and succulents I have that were bought blindly and stumbled on the plants genus. After looking at images on Google, I found a photo and the rest, they say, is history. I grow mine in medium light and it seems to like it.

I first got a cutting of this plant from the NY Botanical Gardens when I lived in NYC. I used to keep it inside on a window seat that got some nice sun but not all day. When I moved to FL, I planted it outside. It was getting too much sun and the spears were turning yellow so I moved it to a partial shade area and it's doing great. I like this plant -- it's tough and interesting looking. Easy to care for. It handles our winters that sometimes have brief 30 degree nights. It never shows any problem from that but of course it's only several hours at those temps.

Sturdy sanseviera needing little care, only protection in the winter in zone 8a. This plant becomes huge and on occasion offers up blooms. Also reproduces from the roots. Plant tips serve the cats who like to rub on them, leaving the tips scarred. Not a plant for limited spaces. This one stays outdoors unless there is a severe freeze.

This is a great Sansevieria. It is slow and do be careful, the tips of the plant can poke a eye out! I have mine in a sunny west window in the house, i have had it for 2 years now. Its very easy to take care of. Fertailizer sorta speeds things up, just a little bit. Sends new shoots up often. I have mine growing in a clay pot in cactus soil with Dr. Earth organic fertailizer mixed in and he seems to like it! Might be pricey for a Sansevieria, but is well worth the money. Try to find a well grown plant, seedlings take a while to reach the 2 foot mark.

this plant blooms for me every year, I have it in various size pots out side protected from full sun. loves to be left alone, root bound, let it dry out between waterings and don't even talk to it. flower spikes reach two feet high with hundreds of small off white flowers fragrant only at night. as many as thirty flowers open at the same time for one or two nights. I call this the "haute couture" of flower fragrance. I have several varieties but can't identify them. they started to bloom two weeks ago, will post a snap in this category for all of the flowers appear to be the same.

I have grown this plant by rhizome for 28 years. It blooms every so often usualy when it is warm. I got the original from a plant sale at the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden. I have not seen one again. I made the pot to accentuate the tall spikes of green. One year it recieved no water when I got it back it just started growing again. I tell my friends it thrives on negelect.

This is the easiest plant to grow. I bring it out in the spring and take it in during the winter. It thrives on total neglect and takes a lot of beatings from cats to squirrels; it's also drought tolerant. This a great plant!

I live in the UK. I have successfully grown and propogated this plant for 20 years as a house-plant and never had any problems until I moved in with my boyfriend. He lives in a basement flat with no natural daylight - the only place where they could get any was in the covered yard out back. Unfortunately, over the first winter, every one of them has withered and died.
The moral? They require natural daylight AND warmth all year round!

This makes a good houseplant in areas where there is frost. In winter water sparingly to avoid root rotting. After all danger of frost take outside and water more freely. When propagating remember that cuttings will lose the white stripe whereas root divisions will remain the same as the mother plant.